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What CivicSummit attendees want in a presentation:
• Advanced topics for experienced local government leaders
• Lessons learned by a community challenge. What research went into your approach, how did you measure the success, what worked—or didn’t—and what were your key takeaways?
• Actionable advice and guidance.
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Session Proposal Tips:
• Be specific in your session title and description.
• Craft your session for a specific audience.
• Tell us how attendees can use the information you will be sharing in their jobs immediately.
• Know that hands-on training or demonstrations are welcome. Attendees favor sessions where they learn HOW to do something or a new skill.
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Session Proposal Topic Ideas:
• Developing communications plans for your department or program
• Social media strategies and analytics or training on specific platforms
• Employee engagement or internal staff messaging
• Responding to a specific community challenge
• Modern technology solutions to citizen engagement, such as IoT, platform technology, and API integrations
• Reaching underserved populations, including Spanish-language speakers, people who are homeless or have ADA concerns or different cultural backgrounds
• Dealing positively with negative feedback from leadership or colleagues
• Developing yourself as a leader in your agency or field
• Technology and tools for communicators
• Graphic design best practices
• Working with elected officials and city and county administrators
• Crisis and emergency communications
• Reaching different generations
• Hiring the next generation of local government leaders
• Optimizing engagement in public meetings
